Saturday, 2 August 2014

Sindhi Kadhi

Today’s recipe in the Featured Recipes on Friendship Week
series is hot and spicy Sindhi Kadhi. This traditional Sindhi dish is a favorite
of most and it deserves all the attention. I learned this recipe from my
dearest friend Anisha’s mom and aunty and I had so much fun in the kitchen
today. I always have fun with aunty. She found time to accommodate me even
though she was swamped with work at home today. Aunty is one of my friends’ moms
who I visit even when my friend isn’t around.

I am not able to put a finger exactly at the timeline when Anisha
and I became friends. We just became friends gradually in school and came
closer over time. Here’s a picture from back when we were in 4th or 5th
grade I guess. Anisha is in orange and I am in white. It was a patriotic dance performance and we were dressed in the colors of the Indian national flag.

And here’s a lovely one from recent times.

She is one of the most gorgeous, well-spoken, sophisticated women I know who wraps it up with fun. That's enough Straw B. I am not going to praise you anymore without a bribe!

Coming to our recipe now, it is cooked gram flour roundels in spicy onion-tomato gravy. Aunty asked me to taste one of the pieces and it was so yum that I gobbled up at least 5 before she had a chance to put them in the gravy. When I told her that I could eat all of them just like that, she said that it is not unusual for people to eat them as snacks. It was a good to know I wasn't the weird one!

Ingredients:

For Gram flour dough-

Gram flour- 2 1/2 cups

Green chilly, chopped- 1 nos

Fresh chopped coriander- 1 tbsp

Freshly crushed black peppercorns- 1 1/2 tsp

Red chilly powder- 1 tbsp (adjust)

Cumin seeds- 1/2 tsp

Salt to taste

Oil- 1/4 cup

Water for kneading

For Gravy-

Onions, chopped- 2 cups

Pureed tomatoes- 1 1/2 cups

Oil- 1/4 cup

Coriander powder- 1 tbsp

Red Chilly powder- 1/2 tbsp

Garam masala powder- 1 tsp

Turmeric powder- 1/2 tsp

Salt to taste

Recipe:

Knead a tight dough using the ingredients listed by sprinkling little water at a time.

Divide dough into several small portions and roll each portion into a 4-5" long, 1" thick sticks.

Put these sticks in a pan full of boiling water and let cook covered for 10-15 minutes, stirring occasionally.